so president bush was going to be forced to answer nixon's criticism at nixon's conference so nixon was caught in the maelstrom of all these highly dramatic events, and i accompanied him to washington for that conference. and nixon hosted a different group of people at his head table for each panel discussion, and i was asked to join his head table during zbigniew brzezinksi's panel discussion. and i sat to the right of president nixon, and to the right of me was james schlesinger. and i noticed that there was a camera above us that was trained on brzezinksi, and brzezinksi began his remarks and i noticed some activity out of the left corner of my eye. president nixon had leaned forward, and he took a writing pad off of the table that the hotel had provided, he picked up a pen and i saw him scribbling something. and he passed the note to me, and i looked down and it said, "are you having a good time?" and i immediately turned the pad over because i didn't want the camera to pick up what he had written because he was supposed to be paying attention to what brzezinksi was saying. but to m

nixon.he situation came to ahead of the third day of the visit is pat walked through the store come hundreds of people and balconies or stood adjacent isles to catch a glimpse of her. reporters tried to cover the event found their views blocked by the soviet detail. she became shoving became satisfied to be here. pass it on reporter for being manhandled by the soviet officer by pulling the reporter to her and offering him a of her ice cream cone. her obvious distress of the situation and attempt to remedy it did much to win the open operation of the reporters. so we end with another story that reinforces past love of travel, her openness to other people she met including reporters and willingness to take whatever action was necessary. from her youngest is that you listen to her father's story, through years of single women take enough of small excursion to the early years of her marriage to trains of them as they share their love of visiting new places. travel and treat pat, and decorated he

nixon grab the hand of mrs. brezhnev's who was not used to the throng of reporters and crowds constantly surrounding the women, pat's determination to stop and talk with the people who had come out to me or cedar entered the affection of the population. one incident exemplified her appeal to the ordinary people she encountered. during the nixon stopover in warsaw pact attended a show recital. won the crowd applauded as she rose to lead, she walked toward them intending to shake hands and talk to the people. turned her prayer attempted to lead her back to the official party. she refused to join the group until she had waited into the crowd of men and women who responded very warmly with some men taking off their hats and others kissing her hand. reporters, even critical u.s. correspondents were extremely complementary. the globe described her as a remarkable saleswoman. the london daily mail claims she was the best boost for womanhood since they invented lipstick and the herald reported got a warm feeling at the

nixon.situation came to a head on the third day of the visit is pat restart hundreds of people crammed on the balconies burst at an adjacent isles to catch a glimpse of her. reporters tried to cover the event found therapies for hospice of the security detail, pushing became shoving. being manhandled by officer with a of cream cone. to remedy that much with the admonition of the reporter. what's another story that reinforces past love of travel, openness to other people she met including reporters unwillingness to take whatever action was necessary from her youngest is prints or restrict ventures two years as a single woman taking off to the early years of her marriage as they shared their love visiting new places, travel and treat patco and decorated her and provided her with opportunities she might not have had otherwise. also provided a need to transfer the first lady's role. although observers often criticized her for failing to focus on a specific cause or appearing to mir to close at t

not only would nixon be the first u.s. president to visit the people's republic of china, but because of china's self-imposed isolation, one of the group of westerners who had ever been there. as a result, there was tremendous worldwide interest in the trip. wind chime decided to allow the american press to tag along with the president and mrs. nixon, people around the world followed the february 1972 journey with tremendous interest. it was a representative introduced americans to china, represent the american people to the chinese. if she had not already realize what a great response those she had on her shoulders, the briefing papers she got from the state department made it explicitly clear. empathizing the role as a unique opportunity to trip represented, to reestablish communication between the women of china and america, the state department reminded her that she would be the first leaving american woman the chinese had met. the intensive u.s. television coverage provided her with with unprecedented opportunities to

had worked out with them the nixon would give them a much better deal after the election l.b.j. was furious this was trees and because he could listen to the cia phone intercepts he knew that richard nixon was at the heart of it so he called the senior republican in the united states senate everett dirksen one of the most honorable men to hold a senate leadership position in generations and he told ever dirksen what was going on take a listen. i don't act good at a price shock america back spoke candidate bush playing with a source right. i don't know are good but it's very good but this kind of stuff they are good we. are. quoting some of these. are going to be an amazing embassy and please notify the press. but the second take you back and ever i go out to get this in the campaign and they are done this is crazy. ever dirksen at the end going i know every dirksen promised to contact nixon personally and try to put a stop to that treason and later conversations reported back to l.b.j. that nixon wouldn't even discuss it with him general to dog in his heels the war continued on

nixon remembered that. [laughter] so one of the early dirty tricks of the nixon white house was finding a way to get rid of ray. nixon's housing secretary was a fellow named george romney. who's son mitt has been in the news lately. mitt's day complained that ray was not being very cooperative. he seemed to think he could run it any way saw he fit. there was talk that ray may have used fannie mae postage or letter head to raise money for the democratic candidates. and the white house was gets complaints from the republican lawyers in south carolina that democratic lawyers were getting all fannie mae work related to foreclosures. all the fees. within nine months nixon fired him as fannie mae without giving any public explanation. he resisted. he full min nate to the press that nixon was turning fannie mae in to a patronage put pudding. he tried to get a restraining order from the federal judge. the judge wouldn't budge. ray kept showing up for work anyway. at one point, the lights went out and the phone line

nixon personally. chris: finally, the return of richard nixon winning narrowly over shubte humphrey in 19 -- over hubert humphrey in 1968. >> election night 1968. nixon's the one. that's the natural banner for any sprightly front page tonight. richard nixon won the election this time. where eight years ago, he lost it. in illinois. it was so close, it took forever. but he won it. it was again one of the closest elections in american history. >> i have done my best. i have lost. mr. nixon has won. so now let's get on with the urgent task of uniting our country. thank you. [applause] >> having lost a close one eight years ago and having won a close one this year, i can say this. winning's a lot more fun. [laughter] chris: i like nixon better the first time. and when we come back, one will have to lose, the first half, the american president would suffer a significant loss. so would the son of george romney who has been working for years to redeem his father's own loss back in 1968. plus scroops and >> on

helping brown defeat nixon to become governor of california in 1962. nixon still remember that. [laughter] so one of the early dirty tricks of the nixon white house was finding a way to get rid of ray. nixon's housing sector was a fellow named george romney whose son mitt romney has been in the news lately. his dad complained that ray was not being very cooperative. he seem to think he could run fannie mae any way he saw fit. there was also talk that ray might use fannie mae postage or letterhead to raise money for democratic candidates. the white house was getting complaints from republican lawyers in south carolina that democratic lawyers were getting all fannie mae work related foreclosures, all those fees. well, within nine months of taking office, nixon fired ray lapin as president of fannie mae without giving any public explanation. ray lapin resisted. he fulminated to the press nixon western fannie mae into what he called a patronage putting. try to try to get a restraining order from a federal judge. the judge wouldn't budge. but ray kept showing up for work anyway. [lau

nixon to kick around anymore." >> ifill: i read about it in the history books. >> you can argue nixon had the last laugh-- or at least the intermediate laugh. but, you know, i remember-- a personal story. i wasn't involved in the campaign then, but i've been involved with senator dole over the years. and in 1996, he really was not in doubt about the likely outcome of the election. and a very, i must say, eloquent concession speech had been prepared for him, which he took with him to the ballroom and basically tore up and just spoke from the heart. and in the end, that's probably the only way for gon respond to something like this. >> ifill: david what, do you think about that, this whole idea of the art of winning and losing and how it's best handled? >> i'd go with the eloquent speech. i thought john mccain had a beautiful speech. i think senator dole had a great speech. for both of them it confirmed their world views. they both had sort of tragic sensibilities. but i thought-- i think most people handle it well. and you have to remember no one ever gets over this. this is a-- an inc

route nixon is a rachel carson professor of english -- rob nixon is a professor of english at the university wisconsin-madison. he is a frequent -- contributed to "the new york times" and i would like to welcome rob nixon. [applause] this next award goes to rob nixon. >> i should point out actually that mr. nixon who wrote this extraordinary work actually intended to be here, but harvard told us that they told him but didn't. in other words, they led us on for a while and said oh yeah don't worry about it. we have got it and then i spoke with rob nixon about a week ago and he said no, no one got in touch with me. so, sometimes, maybe lawrence summers got in there. they fired him though, right? [laughter] now, one of the most extraordinary books to emerge over the last year are a collection of short stories, "american masculine" from shann ray. to be sure, in the west, in the united states, there's a tremendous amount of the inner life that rarely makes its way onto the pages of works of fiction, characters often hard to beguiling and complex to find their full relief or to be held close and

they plant the seed was nixon. actually you can listen to the tape and you can hear mitchell and nixon is kind of rolling around and first he doesn't really like the idea. but he warms to it because he's got a deadline. he wants to make a speech. and actually 10 hours before the speech, he decided rehnquist is this man along with lewis powell. posted at fascinating. you mention the tapes in which anyone of our viewers can get from the archives you can put in our cassette and make a copy and listen to it. during richard nixon, a graduate of duke law school get jealous i sold about how smart rehnquist was at stanford. i remember the president said something maybe it wasn't as hard at stanford as it was at duke because john mitchell of the attorney general is of course talking about how smartly rehnquist was, first in his class and also having clerked for justice jackson. so he's on the court and this is what you write about him. under rehnquist to the constitution of the state officials have risquÉ people. they could

response as you have it was people of john's going to follow nick nixon did it but nixon was in thrall to the provide the prevailing ideas when john kenneth galbraith and milton friedman had a t.v. debate and if you were smart liberal minded person and felix wrote and others smart liberal minded people say wage and price controls are the answer to inflation and if not wage and price controls than targeting than other kinds of fiscal measures that was the smart thing to say milton friedman said inflation is purely a monetary matter we can do it with monetary monetarism he was right well that was he right or was it that the inflation was because both l.b.j. and richard nixon had with the vietnam war you know basically they had monetize the vietnam war rather than a monetary phenomenon and so it got wrong out of the economy just by virtue of time well it's a it's a monitor his point was and you're agreeing with you that it was a monetary phenomenon conservatives argued then at that time at that time the united states faced a problem of chronically sluggish productivity growth and conserva

they failed to to franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four of them did not effectively communicate this agenda or initiative were jefferson, monroe, grant and cleveland. obviously the dominant source of failure for the second term prudent has been their inability to successfully work with congress, the second term presidents have faced troubled or second terms do directly to the fight between the congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of release. those presidents that serve in the congress having the majority of the opposing party during the second term included willson, eisenhower, nixon, ronald reagan and clinton. the competitive battle to the president and congress dates to the site george washington had in the congress over the treaty. he had won approval only after standing considerable efforts looking directly with members of congress compromising and cudgeling and that was with the congress having the majority of white thinking federalists' a president who was revered in a

franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four who did not effectively communicate their agendas or initiatives were jefferson, monroe, grand and cleveland. the dominant force of failure for a second term presidents has been there in the ability to successfully to work with congress. lee eight second term presidents have face trouble their second term due directly to the fight between congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of relief. those presidents who served with the congress having majority of the opposing party during a second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between a president and congress bates to the fight george washington had with congress over the jay treaty and. he had won approval only after considerable effort working directly with members of congress, compromising and cajoling. that was with the congress having a majority of right thinking federalists and a president who is revered as a national hero. w

to worry about an energy crisis -- lyndon johnson, before richard nixon. in 1955 he said we had two critical infrastructure pieces. one, makes a the natural gas supply chain, the other is the electricity grid. we have not invested enough capital into those infrastructure areas. host: fred, denver, colorado. your on with jeffrey leonard. caller code does the improved technology -- caller: does the improved technology of shale extraction make to the keystone pipeline obsolete? -- make the keystone pipeline obsolete? guest: i am not an expert in that area. i wish i was. we will be conducting natural gas movements in this country,

dick nixon, richard nixon, he was a smart politician as they go, and he used to believe -- he didn'tant to the run all out. you're exhausted by election day. he said you have to peak at the right time. he almost caught kennedy. he was three days late. three more days he might have caught him. humphrey almost caught nixon in '68. these elections go through rhythms. >> mitt romney peaked exactly where john kerry peaked in 2004, the first debate. they both had a first great debate, got a great bounce, and it dissipated -- >> slowly dissipated. >> -- over the course of the campaign, and they couldn't get the wind back. >> i'm not sure obama is peaking at the best moment, but the campaign, particularly in ohio, seems to have reached a plateau, this small -- >> why do you come with this debbie downer -- >> let me finish. >> are you irish? >> i'm jewish, close. >> dim scenario. >> if you look at ohio, it has narrowed in the last couple weeks, but it's hit this 4% mark and it hasn't changed -- >> let's go to -- >> obama steady -- >> let's go by what obama thinks -- not obama, romney thinks.

it was about richard nixon's attempt to rig an election and subvert the democratic process itself. are these guys such fanatics that they've forgotten the basic facts of their own country's history? >> yes. >> thank you. >> to put it shortly, yes, they have. martin, i assume you do and toure, i live in the reality-based community. >> amen. >> and i really wish that senators graham and mccain and others would immigrate over here to our side because susan rice -- this whole focus is on u.n. ambassador susan rice and what she said on the sunday shows saying that this -- the demonstrations that happened that led to the ultimate attack

richard nixon had been very eager to please the queen since their first meeting in 1957. when he gave her a book titled the art of readable writing, in an effort to improve her public speaking which had been criticized in the british press. nixon also hosted a stag dinner for prince philip in the white house which prompted barbara walters to scold him for not including any women. nixon and retained the queen's two older children, prince charles and princess anne for two days in washington even trying to fix the charles with his daughter, tricia. nixon had lunch with the queen ones at checkers, the prime minister's residence in the country, but never managed to get the queen over here for a state visit. his successor, gerald ford, for her ambitious tour during the bicentennial celebrations in 1976, he famously danced with the queen at the white house to the unfortunate choice of the lady is a tramp. which those who know her said that she probably found very funny. both the queen and prince philip enjoyed it when planning those somewhat -- as it did at the british ambassado

. >> very strangely, richard nixon declared the war on drugs in 1971, but nixon, although he talks tough on crime, that is not how he made his policies. he spent two-thirds of his drug budget on treatment and only a third on enforcement. we ought to at minimum look at this drug issue with treatment. tavis: why we got away from that reality -- it is a health crisis first before an issue of criminality. >> starting with nixon, the successive presidents being tough on crime get them elected and also members of congress. and they are particularly corrupted by the unholy alliance that have with the corporations. treating with criminality rather than treating it as a health matter that should be addressed with compassion rather than draconian approach. tavis: the project is called "the house i live in. " the director is eugene jarecki. that is our show for tonight. thank you for watching. until next time, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation withlt frank rich and his take n the

c-span: did you learn that from richard nixon? >> guest: i did, indeed. c-span: if you ran for an office, what kind of an office, of all the ones you've seen, appeal to you? >> guest: i think an executive position, perhaps governor. c-span: here's what the book looks like. it's called "nixon off the record," and our guest has been its author, monica crowley. thank you very much. >> guest: thank you very much. .. 80 degrees, big crowds here on the campus dade this is about ten minutes. autho >>> joining us here on the sety. is another author we want to introduce you to. this is bryan latell. co herself -- here's his book.roun. if you will start gi giving us r your background.ounciln particularly your cia background. >> i worked at cia and nationalp intelligence counsel inac washington for about thirty fivl years.in >> what capacity? >> i became the national intelligence officer for latinee america which it a three or foua star military equivalent.on he was a civilian. it was a substantial position. i had responsibility for all of latin america and cuba. on

i'd like to welcome rob nixon.pplause] [laughter] >> this next award goes to rob nixon. >> i should point out, actually, that mr. nixon, who wrote this extraordinary work, actually intended to be here, but i was going to drop dime on him. harvard told us that they told him but didn't. in other words, they just sort of led us on for a while. they said, oh, yeah, don't worry about it before columbus, we got it. then i spoke with rob nixon about a week ago. he said, no, they never got in touch with me. i really wanted to be there. so sometimes it was that play too -- maybe lawrence summers got in there. [laughter] they fired him though, right? now, one of the most extraordinary books to emerge over the last year, a collection of short stories, "american masculine" from chand ray. now, to be sure in the in the united states there's a tremendous amount of the inner life that rarely makes its way onto the pages of works of fiction. carcharacters often far too beguiling or complex to be held close, and this book is truly

legalize marijuana much to the joy college students in both states but as president obama ready to stop nixon's failed war on drugs and allow college campuses to go green and california law says that corporations are people so shouldn't you be able to drive in the highway carpool lane just you and your incorporation papers by yourself. you need to know this the biggest message out of the two thousand and twelve election that you'll never hear from the corporate media is this that americans believe and voted to affirm that believe that government can be a solution to the problems we face the government can do good things and that ronald reagan was wrong. america is not a say right wing or even a center right nation we never have been in one hundred thirty five f.d.r. broader social security and we loved it then and we still love it now and that of course is just the tip of the iceberg that proves america is a leftist nation if you call leftist people who believe the government can do things well it started with the founders who put the phrase general welfare in our constitution twice first in th

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we see these little plastic toys, and nixon is on a real battleship.we have aircraft carriers now in an airplane landing -- but it only seems to work when the incumbent does not. but this idea that the democrats are going to cut all of these important defense programs, it is exactly the same message of this advertisement, it is one the most effective attack ads. >> he opposed new aircraft carriers and anti-satellite weapons. he opposed all of this. he opposed the ground emergency warning system against an attack. now he wants to be our commander in chief. america can afford that risk. >> poor michael dukakis. if you do a google image search, this is how people remember michael dukakis. it was unfortunate for the opportunity. this was a photo opportunity that was staged by the dukakis campaign. he didn't quite look the way he was intended to. but you have the same message. he is going to cut all of these programs. so now jumping to 2004. this is the same exact ad, just happens to use computer graphics or it uses the techniques of the time. >> as our tro

was saying president nixon is going to resign.very different. we had news media waiting in our front yard for something to happen. so, it was one of those things that dad did not say something until the very last minute. yes, we are going to the white house and we need to pick out clothes. [laughter] >> not a conversation most people can relate to. [laughter] what was that conversation like when he called you together? >> because my father and president nixon had been longtime friends, one of the first people who spoke to my dad when he became a congressman was nixon who was also in the house. there was a long relationship between the two families. when dad did tell us, it was one of those things of this is going to happen. it is very sad. we know the family. it was more a matter of being upset for what our country was getting ready to experience. and how sad tha tthis had to happen to the united states. because my dad had 25 years in the congress. this was a very sad moment for him. as we have spent time talking, both of our pare

we could have done this whole segment just on nixon.a way to movies and anthony hopkins has done it. there's something about the complexity of the character, it can be tragic and shakespearean and ridiculously funny. >> michael your second favorite is peter sellers in that great game "dr. strange love." >> my fictional president of the three. it's also one of the great telephone calls in movie history where he's on the phone with his russian counter part there's been a little problem with the bomb and heading their way and it's just to me like sellers channelling all sort of american presidents across the 20th century, eisenhower -- >> of jack stanton, very thinly disguised bill clintonesque figure base opened the novel by anonymous which turned out to be joe klein, directed by jack nicholson. wonderful acting in this movie. this is one of my favorite of john travolta's roles. he takes a big bite out of this character who was so full of appetite and ambition who is so charming and so devious. >> just like nixon. michael, your favorite.

. >> rose: so who is richard nixon in this? >> it's going to be fun. >> rose: what is richard nixon in this scenario, albert? >> who is richard nixon? well, he was -- >> mitt romney comes back? >> he was already president in '68 but the democrats went through the -- there was the john connolly wing nut before he became a republican, there was mcgovern, musky, so i think the -- it there's going to be the equivalent of that now. >> rose: john harris, do you have any sense of what the president -- has he thought about how he wants to ghovrn the second term or is he simply thinking about having an opportunity to govern in the second half. >> it's an opportunity. and the way to look at the mandate is if he wins reelection, the republican mandate to stop him he hopes has been eliminated. probably what he wants to do is take up the unfinished agenda from 2011. that is get back the fiscal cliff, force both sides-- his theory is-- to deal with the so-called grand bargain on fiscal issues. and if that's right-- and i do think mark's anal

. >> the informant whom we'll refer to as nixon manages to follow orders and completes the intoe andg buy. >> they're doing a deal right now. we've got a is very ute. this white car coming this way. good deal. bill called back. he can call back later tonight and say my cousin, he would like to be part of it. can he come back tomorrow? that's how it works. >> she hasn't been arrested in ten years. this is all she's doing. she's obviously got a good connection. we sure would like to find out who that is. hopefully can get a good case going and see where it goes from there. >> what if you did an intro, you brought a guy in the car, whatever, my guy wants to buy a 20? >> handling informants is more like an art than a science. investigators never know if or when a confidential source will turn on them. so far this former inmate roosevelt is making good on his word. he's identified the leader of a $20,000 a day narcotics ring on the city's west side. >> we got good security. who's secure? >> everybody. >> it's an impossible neighborhood. they've got guys on both ends with binoculars watchi

we know from nixon's comments he was obsessed with anti-war protests. if bush were doing the same things, and there would be much more protests. tavis: i feel like i am just getting started. i am glad we got to discuss this. we talked about militarism. tomorrow i want to get to the divide between the rich and poor. third, all these issues are approached in a variety of ways in this new book called "the untold history of the united states," the companion to the documentary. great to have you are. i will see you in 24 hours for part 2 of this conversation. thanks for tuning in. i will see you tomorrow night. until then, keep the faith. >> roosevelt wrote a remarkable letter in which he flatly turned down the representation. >> the democratic party has failed when it falls to the control of those who think in terms of dollars instead of human lives. until the democratic party shakes off the shackles by the forces of conservatism, reaction, and appeasement, it will not continue the march to victory the party cannot face in both directions at the same time.